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Assignments for Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian, Book 2 (Fourth Edition).  Audio files are found at http://www.prenhall.com/golosa or you can click on the links below.

Special note:  As part of the Unit 6 oral test, you will memorize one of three poems printed on pp. 246-248.  You may want to begin memorizing now.  Here are the three recordings:

    Я вас любил (1829).  А. С. Пушкин

    Сероглазый король (1910).  А. А. Ахматова

    Окно выходит в белые деревья (1956).  Е. А. Евтушенко

6.1:  Tuesday, Feb. 3

TXBK 210-213; SAM 129-130 (all exercises from Фонетика и интонация).

1. -Read the section in SAM on pronouncing the soft consonants Ч and Щ.  Take special note of how certain words that are spelled one way are pronounced differently (top of p. 130).  Prepare the exercise at the bottom of p. 130 by reading through the list of Russian writers and making notes of pronunciation in your book.  You will read them aloud in class.
   

2. -Read the short biographical sketches of the thirteen Russian writers on pp. 210-211.  Look up words you don’t know.  Also read about the “Детективыный роман” in the culture box on p. 211.
   

3. -Prepare ex. 6-1 through 6-3 in the TXBK.
   

4. -Finally listen to the three “Разговоры для слушания” (links below) and write your answers to the questions on p. 213 in your TXBK.
   

Разговор 1

Разговор 2

Разговор 3

6.2:  Wednesday, Feb. 4

TXBK 214-219; no SAM assignment. 

1. -Read and understand the five dialogs, pp. 214-216.  You’ll have a number of words to look up.  For example, in the title of Dialog No. 1, what does the phrase “выучить наизусть” mean?
   

2. -We’ll do ex. 6-5 and 6-6 in the Давайте поговорим section, pp. 217-219.
   

3. -You will need to know the answers to the questions in ex. 6-9, p. 219, for the unit test.
   

Диалог 1

Диалог 2

Диалог 3

Диалог 4

Диалог 5

6.3:  Thursday, Feb. 5

TXBK 221-225 (Sections 1 and 2); Oral drills 1-3 (SAM 131-132), Written exercises 1-3 (SAM 138-139). 

1. -Section 1.  Asking about names: звать vs. называться.  What’s the difference between the two “naming” verbs - звать and называться.  Prepare all exercises in the TXBK.
   

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3. -Section 2.  How to use the short-form adjective нужен, нужна, нужно, нужны.  When you need a THING or a PERSON, you use one of these forms.   
   

    Мне нужен словарь.  I need a dictionary.  (Словарь is masculine, so you use нужен.)

    Мне нужна новая машина.  I need a new car.  (Машина is feminine, so you use нужна.)

    Мне нужны деньги.  I need money.  (Деньги is plural, so you use нужны.)

Oral drill 1

Oral drill 2

Oral drill 3

6.4:  Monday, Feb. 9

TXBK 225-227 (Section 3); Oral drills 4-7 (SAM 132-133), Written exercises 4-5 (SAM 139-140). 

Section 3.  Который constructions.  Tonight you learn how to use the important word который, which links two clauses and is translated as “who” or “what/which”.  Read the grammar explanation on pp. 225-226 and prepare the three exercises in your TXBK.  Here are three examples showing how the relative pronoun “который” (in various forms) is used:

Это моя мама, которая живёт в Сан-Франциско.

Вот дом, в котором я живу.

Я вижу магазины и улицы, о которых вы говорили.

Oral drill 4

Oral drill 5

Oral drill 6

Oral drill 7

6.5:  Tuesday, Feb. 10

TXBK 227-230 (Sections 4 and 5); Oral drills 8-16 (SAM 134-137), Written exercises 6-10 (SAM 140-144). 

Section 4.  Negative constructions:  ни- ... не. Double negatives are required in Russian.  Here’s an example:

Я ничего не знаю. 

I don’t know anything. 

(Literally = “I don’t know nothing.”)

Section 5.  Constructions with -то and -нибудь.  Кто-то (“someone”); Кто-нибудь (“anyone/someone”).  Read the grammatical explanation on pp. 228-229 and especially the “guidelines” of when to choose either “-то” or “-нибудь” and the examples.  You’ll need to know the forms in the chart on p. 230.

Кто-нибудь звонил?  (Did ANYONE phone?)

Да, кто-то звонил, но я забыл кто.  (Yes, SOMEONE phoned, but I forgot who.)

Prepare the exercises in Sections 4 and 5 in your TXBK.

Oral drill 8

Oral drill 9

Oral drill 10

Oral drill 11

Oral drill 12

Oral drill 13

Oral drill 14

Oral drill 15

Oral drill 16

6.6:  Wednesday, Feb. 11

TXBK 231-233; (Section 6); Oral drills 17-18 (SAM 137) and Written exercises 11-12 (SАМ 14).

1. -Section 6.  Declining Last Names.  Some last names are adjectives (Толстой, Достоевский) and some are nouns (Чехов, Пушкин, Ахматова).  Read about the case endings for these two groups of last names.  (There are some surprise exceptional endings - see bold-faced examples in chart at bottom of p. 231).  Prepare exercise on p. 232.
   

Oral drill 17

Oral drill 18

6.7:  Thursday, Feb. 12

Давайте почитаем.  TXBK 233-238.  Review for Vocabulary test. (Recommended additional reading: TXBK 239-245, especially “Сердца трёх” by Михаил Зощенко, one of the Soviet Union’s funniest satirists.)

1. -In the first section, read a short biography of Наталья Владимировна Баранская.  Answer the questions in ex. 6-25.  In class you’ll also be asked to give your answers to ex. 11, 12, and 13.
   

1. -In the second section, “Как судили поэта” (How they put a poet on trial), you’ll read a section of the infamous trial of Joseph (Иосиф) Brodsky.  For class prepare all parts of ex. 6-26, ending on p. 238.
   

1. -Prepare for the 20-word vocabulary test; see pp. 249-251 (as usual, “passive vocabulary” is not included in the test).
   

Here are selected Oral Drills from your SAM in presentation program format.  Download either the PowerPoint or the Keynote (Mac) version and run it on your computer:

Oral Drills Review (PowerPoint)

Oral Drills Review (Keynote)

6.8:  Monday, Feb. 16

Давайте послушаем.  Memorize one of three poems (pp. 246-248) for recital in class.  Also read through the other two poems, know what they are saying, and be ready to read them aloud in class.  Review for tomorrow’s test.

Download, print out, and bring this review sheet to class.

Я вас любил (1829).  А. С. Пушкин

Сероглазый король (1910).  А. А. Ахматова

Окно выходит в белые деревья (1956).  Е. А. Евтушенко

Tuesday, Feb. 17

Unit 6 test